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Bibliography: Shakespeare's life

  1. Baker, Oliver. In Shakespeare's Warwickshire and the Unknown Years. London: S. Marshall, 1937.
  2. Barroll, J. Leeds. Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare's Theater: The Stuart Years. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.
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